SB is great, but are there any plans to shake up the endgame formula?

[Krotoan]

Have you done all the storylines? Maxed all jobs? Bahamut turns? Inspector questline, all of them? Crafting? Gathering? Got all the minions/mounts? Leveled your chocobo companion to all 3 jobs capped? Colored your chocobo? Gardened? (I understand this requires a house so.. maybe not) Raced and bred racing chocobos? Got all the TT cards? Fulfilled all the achievements? PVP'd?

I understand if none of these interest you and all you wanted to begin with was MSQ and your main job. But I will say that if you look past the part where you max your gear and finish the story, there are a LOT more things to do. I've been playing this since the beginning and have never run out of things to do.

[Krotoan]

Stop talking like leveling other jobs is "content". we're talking about actual content, something you log in and can do to progress your character in some form that give you an edge in harder content.

every job has a storyline, I'd say that's content. Maybe not min/max content, but content.

[Alien_Gamer]

Honestly OP, there is no solution. It is impossible for the dev team to create enough content to satiate the kind of player that burns through an entire expansion worth of content in the first couple weeks. Fundamentally, even if they did increase the caps the only change would be that it would take you an additional week to burn through those higher levels/caps/whatever; it wouldn't change anything, just delay how long until someone complains about nothing else to do.

I don't mean to pass judgement on anyone's playing style but this is a player made problem, not a development one. Players can either pace themselves and take longer to reach the endgame and progress through it, or they can speed through it then wonder "what else is there to do?". Personally I like to take my time with things you seem to be more of the get it done fast kind of person, which is fine but we both need to live with the consequences of how we play.


Make an alt, level a different class, help your FC mates, throw a party, do whatever you find fun. Or if you're really bored with it, do as Yoshi suggests and play a different game until 4.1. Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what the devs put out, some players will speed through it and ask "what else is there to do?"

[MuseTraveller]

I on the other hand feel demotivated to grind tomes. I don't even bother hitting the cap anymore.
It feels like by the time I get the current tome gear, fully meld and everything, it lasts for a few weeks before new gear comes and we repeat the process.
I wish we could turn in the old tome gear for new tome gear discount so at least the previous grind would feel like it mattered.

That aside, now I find fun in other aspects of the game - gathering, crafting, furnishing, etc. I'm hardly bored but the tome formula is too demotivating for me and I wish it could change.

[Tint]

So you rushed through all the content, as quickly as you could, and are currently upset that they have not provided new content months before their regularly scheduled content release?

This is one of the few games, until this most recent WoW expansion, that you can rely on a 3-month update schedule. They have kept to this since the release of ARR and have always been consistent. Also, prior to the release of SB, they laid out that new content would be released in even numbered patches (4.2, 4.4 etc.) while the odd numbered patches would be mostly balance updates.

They told ALL of us that there would be a gap in content right now. They planned that gap. There is a reason for that gap. Your preferred play style of rushing as quickly as possible to clear everything is absolutely not what they are designing content around. I'm sorry to say that your problem is on your end alone. SE doesn't need to change a thing.

so you mean they design content for staying around and not doing that content? i am not rushing at all. i do the content at a fairly normal speed. however, even with reading all the text and doing all the quests and helping other people leveling i finished it all. i can either stay around and not play the game or play the game and stay round after that. the amount of content and the time i need to clear the content stays the same. i needed 4 hours to get all my loot from omega this week. i can either do that at one day and stay around the rest of the week, doing nothing, or spread that 4 hours over the whole week, wich means i play for a few minutes every day and stay around the rest of the time, doing nothing.

Have you done all the storylines? Maxed all jobs? Bahamut turns? Inspector questline, all of them? Crafting? Gathering? Got all the minions/mounts? Leveled your chocobo companion to all 3 jobs capped? Colored your chocobo? Gardened? (I understand this requires a house so.. maybe not) Raced and bred racing chocobos? Got all the TT cards? Fulfilled all the achievements? PVP'd?

I understand if none of these interest you and all you wanted to begin with was MSQ and your main job. But I will say that if you look past the part where you max your gear and finish the story, there are a LOT more things to do. I've been playing this since the beginning and have never run out of things to do.

i actually did a lot of these things. but i thought we are talking about PVE content here, and nothing else. and PVE is lacking in FF14. it ever was, and it seems always will. we need the relic questline fast. without the relic grind there is not much to do besides weekly capping tomes (wich are not in the game yet) and the raid.

[Sigiria]

I miss that Minstrel's Ballad Savage EX trial.

Oh it's there, you have to spam the ministrel for a about 36 hours and at some point he'll offer you the quest "Raubhan super savage"

[FateAudax]

This thread is exactly what I've been telling my group of friends who plays this game. Even though it is a new "content" but it is in fact, repetitive contents after every single patch.
Glamour and mounts are the true endgame. We need something like Endless Tower from RO, or zones with open world PK system to spice things up.

[Fonkyama]

I would love having more reason to go into the world once maxed lv. World quests like WoW would be a nice addition.

Unless you're hunting or gathering, you don't have any reason to leave cities at max lv, which I find just sad.

[Krotoan]

i actually did a lot of these things. but i thought we are talking about PVE content here, and nothing else. and PVE is lacking in FF14. it ever was, and it seems always will. we need the relic questline fast. without the relic grind there is not much to do besides weekly capping tomes (wich are not in the game yet) and the raid.

I didn't hear the OP specify PVE.. just content. This game has a LOT. But hey, do what interests you and if it doesn't anymore then find another game for a bit. I'm not saying "IF YOU DONT LIKE IT GO AWAY", cause that's not cool, but honestly if you've exhausted the fun part of the game for you, might be time to put it on Hiatus for a bit.

[Alleo]

I love when people bring arguments like: But did you do achievement number x? If you see this as content then SE would just need to put in some truly hardcore achievements (next to the hunting one..) and be done with it because most people would need years to complete it..but oh people left the game..why? Didnt they have achievement number x to do?

I took my time to do the MSQ, lots of people were already farming the ex primals and yet I was still in Kugane. But I am done with it and as fighting content I have only the two ex primals left. I dont feel like farming Omega because I dont like the gear but I also dont really feel like farming any gear because they love to introduce a catch up patch quite fast anyway.

Thankfully I still have lots of crafting and gathering left.

I just dont understand why they did not introduce more endgame content in 4.0? Yes more will come along the way but not everyone will wait until patch 4.x to get it.

I did like the new kind of quests but like the MSQ this is all a one time thing..they truly need to create more content that is doable for a longer time with a bit of fun in it. (And it should function..I am still annoyed that I cant do PotD solo right now because the servers love to kick me)